Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
God nat
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Please
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Farvel
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
dansk
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
danois
  
persan
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Persian people
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Persian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic